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Biological Oddities of a Transcendental Nature
The command center of plants and speaking to a transcendental cantaloupe
(2nd edition - April 2008) by A.O. Kime
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Assuredly, it would sound preposterous to openly state that a cantaloupe
plant is psychic and especially receptive to humans. It would be a case for the
nuthouse! But hold on… until truths are discovered and brought into the open,
often they too once dwelled preposterously. Actually, in strict accordance with
pragmaticism, life IS preposterousness. Yet, ever-so contradictious, practical
people seem to believe in life. Even scientists believe in life. Surely they
must, I think... although obviously not when they're at work. Aside from that
little poke at science for having kept us in the dark concerning the metaphysical
processes of biological life, we'll pick up where science cannot go and dares
not tread.
Even though this article was inspired by a cantaloupe plant, that doesn’t
necessarily make it a typical agricultural article, but it is, nonetheless,
agriculturally related. Before relating a mystifying yet somewhat amusing story
about a gardener’s experience with a small cantaloupe plant, it needs to be
prefaced thusly:
Speaking to plants
Perhaps it can be said organic gardening could include speaking to plants,
communicating with them. After all, since many people believe plants respond to
them, and even music, this phenomenon seems within the same ballpark as organic
gardening. A justifiable reason is because speaking to plants seems ‘spiritual’…
and anything spiritual is just as natural as anything organic. It isn’t
stretching the notion too far… in the greater sense all things natural are
within the same ballpark. I’ll explain the spiritual relationship shortly.
While we all know any distinctions between spiritual matters are extremely
blurry, and often seem interconnected, nobody really knows where ‘communicating
with plants’ aught to belong. This apparent ability belongs somewhere so why not
consider it part of organic farming? As for the music… we’ve all heard of the
experiments to determine how it affects plants. Plants respond well to soft
music, we’ve been told, whereas plants do poorly to psychedelic (acid) rock…
often to whither and die. I don’t know where to suggest putting a plant’s music
preferences though, neither would science. Scientists wouldn’t touch that one
with a ten-foot pole.
At any rate, there is still much we don’t know about plants, specifically how
they manage to ‘know’ certain things… or perhaps I should say ‘sense’ them.
Under whichever term is preferable however, both require the processing of data…
yet, where does this processing occur? Science (plant genetics) doesn’t go any
farther than saying (effectively) it is all encoded in its DNA sequences and
carried out by the action of genes. We owe it to ourselves to go further.
Action of genes... sidestepping biological life processes
If its ‘processing center’ cannot be isolated somewhere within the plant,
then it seems to indicate the ‘brains’ of a plant must be throughout its entire
system… from its root zone to its furthermost leaf. At least that’s what the
theory ‘action of genes’ seems to say… but, it says so incompletely, because it
speaks only about the mechanics. All living cells follow genetic instructions but
it doesn’t tell us how plants manage their internal workings cooperatively... and
they must, somehow, manage them. So a few questions linger… is the data processing
done within the protoplasm of each individual cell? Or within its cellulous
fibers? In order to grow in an orchestrated fashion, cooperatively, in choreographed
unison… how does one cell know exactly what all the other cells are doing? Or is
there a central brain which science cannot find?
While essentially a plant is a genetically preprogrammed marvel (like any
living thing), still, it seems, a plant must have a command center. After all,
there are decisions to be made… when the temperature is right to sprout and
bloom, how to deal with the heat, how to ascertain vertical and much more. A
plant needs to 'think' just the same as any creature and might even lead a
hectic and frustrating life. Combating bugs in slow motion must be maddening...
not to mentions the wars with other plants over elbowroom. While we all have long
considered plants, trees and bushes (all vegetation) as passive living things, as
if having no awareness… I think perhaps we’ve been wrong.
While it has been obvious for centuries that the decision-making aspects of a
plant must be astronomically different, and while science has amassed a huge
amount of knowledge about plants this past century, information on this
difference is still missing. For example, within the animal kingdom the ‘central
command’ is a physical brain, the gelatinous glob of tissue inside a creature’s
head… yet a plant doesn’t have such a brain yet can still make intelligent
decisions. But how?
Within the kingdom of plants (Plantae), even though there are no obvious nervous
or sensory organs, not in trees, nor vines, nor shrubs… that doesn’t mean they
don’t exist. Plants react to certain things and they couldn’t do so without a
nervous system and sensory organs of some type. For example, they can sense the
temperature and react to moisture. In short, they sense and react. While science
has identified the xylem and phloem as somewhat the vascular system of vegetation
(trees, shrubs, plants, etc.), the plant's mysterious nervous system and sensory
organs are bound to be close by... if not within the xylem and phloem. The phloem
transports the products of photosynthesis from the leaves to the roots whereas
the xylem conducts water and minerals up from the roots for distribution to the
entire plant. They may do more than that however since serving double-duty is not
all that unusual within nature. For example, all vascular systems also heal. The
point is, plants assuredly do have a nervous system and sensory organs and
that equates to having awareness.
To date, while science is able to explain almost everything about a plant, all
its physiological aspects, I cannot find any satisfactory explanation as to
wherefrom within a plant the decision-making instructions come from. There is a
lot more explaining to do than just calling it the ‘action of genes’… and that,
apparently, is as far as science has gotten in this area. Considering the dazzling
results of plant biology over the past century, and horticulture in general, their
inability to explain the force or subordinate forces coordinating the
‘action of genes’ within plants says the facts must be totally bizarre… completely
out-of-bounds for pragmaticism (scientific thought).
We shouldn't forget, even humans are controlled by the ‘action of genes’ (using
that phrase)… actions which also construct the physical makeup of the human body
and our highly complex organs. Yet, curiously, science doesn’t describe the
modus operandi of animal intelligence quite so simply, that is, being merely the
result of DNA instructions embedded within the cells. I suppose that's because all
animals have recognizable brains... an identifiable command center. For humans,
science is a bit more specific by citing the subconscious mind
as the command center… because it is known to manage all bodily functions. The
conscious mind plays absolutely no role in regulating however nor has any
control over our subconscious mind nor the actions of genes. Our conscious mind
is merely awareness, and while it is also a processing center, it is mostly of
empty pages. The conscious mind can be likened to a hitchhiker looking out the
window of a car belonging to subconsciousness.
Actually, our conscious mind is the only incompetent part of our entire body…
born entirely ignorant and thus the weak link. It doesn't matter how ultimately
intelligent a human becomes, relatively speaking, it will always fall short of
being comparable to the subconscious mind and will never match the intelligence
of genes. That was a slap to knock scientific intelligence back to its senses.
It is deserving though... aside from science never admitting to its ignorance about
life forces, sure to avoid the subject altogether, but by ignoring it they're
also teaching students to ignore it. After all, if you sweep an elephant under
the rug, you still have an elephant.
Awareness within the kingdom of plants?
As far as plant life having awareness, it surely does but consciousness may
come in 86 different flavors… we can’t imagine how a plant may perceive things.
To say plants don’t have consciousness would actually be a compliment though… it
would be saying, in effect, they have no intellectual weaknesses. By virtue of
the calculating consciousness of humans, able and willing to countermand
its omniscient subconsciousness, humans may not be the smartest creatures on
earth after all, but one of the dumbest. The world's sad state of affairs serves
as testimony. After all, God didn't do it, our subconscious mind didn't do it,
our genes didn't do it... only man's conscious mind did it. Humans are the only
creatures who decided God must be wrong and changed things.
As a much different life form, vegetation offers a better opportunity than
animals to understand life itself. But that’s a tall order for any thought
system with an anti-theism doctrine, Science having been stymied for 2,000
years should be proof its limits.
My anonymous gardener’s cantaloupe story…
"I had experienced something very strange with a cantaloupe plant
recently which I’m somewhat hesitant to reveal. While this tale isn’t equal
to Jack and the Beanstalk, it is bizarre just the same. It concerns a
cantaloupe plant I recently transplanted… with three true leaves, developing
its fourth and it was about three inches tall. But first, I need to preface
the story.
Even though I was once a family farmer for 25
years, I’ve never really spoke to plants, although I’ve always believed plants
are probably responsive to such things as sound and vibrations. After my recent
experience however, which prompted me to believe plants are indeed capable of
responding to humans, I’ve also began to believe a plant picking up on human
vibrations could be a spiritual matter.
I’m fairly new to gardening however; not accustomed to dealing with plants on a
one-on-one basis, this year is only my 3rd or 4th undertaking. I’ve found it
quite different than farming too, and more difficult… so therefore I was a much
better farmer than I am a gardener. In fact, I’m a lousy gardener.
Actually, I didn’t intend to speak to this cantaloupe plant either… what I said
just slipped out. But have I prefaced this story enough yet? Will someone think
I’m crazy if I don’t? Well, rather than risk it, bear with me as I try to
explain what I think is behind it; why what happened, happened.
Let’s go back to the spiritual aspect of speaking to plants… assuming it is
spiritual, although one might want to call it 'psychic transcendence'. But
why wouldn’t speaking to plants be spiritual? What else could it be? Yet, is
speaking to a dog spiritual too? Speaking to plants seems quite different than
speaking to a dog though… in that dogs and humans are both part of the animal
kingdom. Looking at it that way, the divide isn’t as great. Although, at least
to some degree, maybe speaking to a dog is kinda psychic. Perhaps one could
even say one human speaking to another has some spiritual aspect to it.
Because the divide is so great between plants and humans, it seems to me only a
spiritual connection can bridge that gap. Plants and humans therefore can only
understand each other, well, 'psychically' or 'psychically transcendentally'
(whatever)… although surely it’s a case that plants can understand us humans
far better than we can understand them. Of all living things, since humans
are generally less connected to nature, humans would be then… less spiritual.
Even though I don’t know of anyone personally who has openly claimed to have
‘picked up on’ anything a plant wanted, or felt, I have sensed it is true by the
way people fuss over their plants. It seems as if a secretive conversation is
going on. Strangely, just like most writers won’t admit being influenced by the
muse (of Greek mythology), gardeners seem to prefer
keeping this to themselves.
While almost anyone can tell when a plant needs water, still, I don’t know for
sure if a plant ever projected to a human a ‘vibration’ that it wanted water… or
that it was too cold, or too hot, or that it wanted more sunshine. Maybe some
people have picked up on these ‘vibrations’, but I haven’t… at least not yet.
Now, due to the fact I had never experienced a ‘result’ from a conversation with
a plant before this single case, one might think I’m therefore not qualified to
write about ‘communicating with plants’. While normally that would be a
legitimate point except how many times does one get to experience a phenomenon
multiple times? Rarely… besides, once is often enough.
If communicating with plants is transcendentally spiritual, at least more-so
than communicating with an animal or another human, and since it seems plants
can pick up human vibrations more than humans can pick up theirs, then perhaps
plants are more ‘spiritually minded’ than humans. But plants don’t have ‘minds’…
do they? If they do, where are its brains? Yet… it knows when to sprout, it
knows when to flower and it knows about the importance of growing vertical.
Those are just a few things plants know but even if that’s all a plant knew…
then it must have a mind… somewhere. Nor, does it seem, it could communicate
without one.
At this point people would surely say in response… “it is all pre-programmed
in the seed” or “it’s instinctual” or “it’s in its genes” or something to that
effect. Well, that’s true even with humans but it seems more than that.
Actually, in view of how much humans are alike, true to their species, just as
much as plants and animals are, and because we are human… we would therefore
know of our own complexity, more-so than (say) another intelligent species could
see, and, importantly, we would also know much of it is unfathomable. But
we would only know what we know because we are human, we’ve got an inside
perspective… not so when it comes to understanding plants and animals. The
information gathered from dissecting a frog and understanding the frog are two
different things. Dissecting only has the potential to explain its mechanical
workings.
In lieu of plants having brains in the physical, I think perhaps plants have
what could be called ‘spiritual brains’. These spiritual brains could be
described as being somewhat like our subconscious mind which has a huge spiritual
aspect to it. To explain the spiritual connection would take us off on a tangent
however and is another subject for the purpose of this tale. For more on
this see the Divine Intellect (divine
intelligence).
So what about the cantaloupe plant?
As most gardeners probably know, plants often go into shock shortly after being
transplanted… and this is often noticeable within minutes. Their leaves begin to
wilt and their stems become limp. Often within 20 minutes the plant is laying
flat, horizontal. The degree of shock however depends upon how much of the root
system was destroyed in the process of transplanting. If it’s possible to dig up
the entire root system, with the same dirt surrounding the tiny feeder roots
undisturbed, then there is virtually no shock.
Well, just after I had transplanted one… with most of the roots intact but
without any soil attached (none whatsoever) since its seedling soil was sandy
and crumbled away, I then dangled this bare-rooted plant in the hole with one
hand and added soil with the other. I then knew I needed to water it. I got a
small cup of water and while gently pushing the wet soil down to assure there
weren’t any air-pockets in the root zone, by then the plant wouldn’t remain
erect. No matter how I packed the soil around it, whether more on one side and
less on the other, this small cantaloupe plant would just flop to one side and
then the other. After about 5-6 attempts to get it to stay vertical, and during
my last attempt, I unconsciously said aloud “don’t do that (again)"…
whereupon the stem immediately stiffened and remained upright thereafter. I was
somewhat dazzled by this and was thinking to myself… “this plant actually heard
and obeyed me”!
Ah, now wait a minute!! What am I saying? There must be a rational explanation!
Surely this plant didn’t obey my command… I’d be nuts if I went on thinking
that. Good grief! I apologize to all who read this.
In summary
Whether there is a rational explanation for this case, it doesn't really
matter. What does matter is that the incident, true or imagined, raises the
question whether we've been looking at plant life wrong all these years. Perhaps
plants, trees and shrubs have more awareness than we've ever imagined. And,
since purportedly the intelligence of animals vary, perhaps it's the case with
plants as well, that some plants are 'smarter' than others. It is unknown
whether anyone has ever tried to determine this but adaptability could be a
gauge.
A.O. Kime
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